So many have done Les Mis I'd like to see Yuna with something less used. I think it might be orchestrated well though I surely prefer it as a score with words. Has she skated to Phantom? That I can see. I have never heard Kiss of the Vampire either. Off to youtube....

I don't know; Les Mis might orchestrate very well, though I would prefer Chess.

My problem with instrumental Les Mis is that it's a very human story, possibly more so than any other musical/opera. It needs the human voice to be properly expressed. Other musical instruments just aren't enough.

And yeah, I'm with skateluvr on how overused Les Mis is, as well. This season, Jeremy Abbott will be using "Bring Him Home" for his FS. And I'm sure we'll be inundated with Les Mis programs once the movie comes out. We've seen Yuna skate to tragic musicals before. This is becoming formulaic.

That said, her SP choice more than makes up for it. If Wilson and Yuna come up with a good program for Kiss of the Vampire (and they probably will), I expect to see lots of other skaters use that music down the road.

So many have done Les Mis I'd like to see Yuna with something less used. I think it might be orchestrated well though I surely prefer it as a score with words. Has she skated to Phantom? That I can see. I have never heard Kiss of the Vampire either. Off to youtube....

I am always in the mind it is not what you choose but what you do with it that matters the most.

Given there had been so many version of Les Mis as you claimed, can you name one definitive version that left an impression?

For all the greatest classics interpreted on ice, which is the definitive Romeo and Juliet? The definitive Carmen? The definitive Tango? The definitive Chopin? The definitive Phantom? The definitive Bolero? The definitive Gershwin? The definitive Swan lake etc. There're always room for more with great classics and especially as something as rich and broad as Les Mis which you can't categorize as one thing since it has almost 50 songs, runs over 3.5 hours. It covers a broad spectrum of characters, interweave their story, aspirations, explore different philosophical themes, outlines political and social change that are far rich and complex to be condensed into one single skating performance. There could be a whole skating show revolve around Les Mis with 20 skaters each doing their own thread, and it still won't be enough to convey the rich tapestry evolved around Victor Hugo's great novel.

It might be easier just to follow a particular theme in Les Mis, a song, a story, a chapter, but the epic scale certainly left alot of rooms to explore and interprete. I have seen the show at London west end 5 or 6 times and each time I came away with different feeling and appreciation of the musical and its epic ambition. I am curious to see how they get on and the creative decisions to come up with it.